Summary: Fueled by a suitcase full of pharmaceuticals, journalist Raoul Duke and his sidekick Dr. Gonzo set off on a fast and furious ride through nonstop neon, surreal surroundings and a crew of crazy characters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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2 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE FEAThompson, Hunter S.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1998
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Summary: Hell's Angels" was Hunter Thompson's first book, an account of the year that the reporter spent riding with the biker gang, then the very symbol of dangerous counterculture. After writing a piece on the Heirs Angels and other cycle gangs for The Nation, Thompson signed a contract with Ballantine and spent time with "as many vicious thugs as possible." His involvement ended on Labor Day 1966...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1999
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Summary: Begun in 1959 by a then twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico,in the late 1950s. The autobiographical hero, a young writer dreaming of Hemingway but stuck in a dead-end newspaper job, embarks on a carousing, hell-raising journey through...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 THOThompson, Hunter S.
Summary: A young reporter's life in the 1950's. Paul Kemp breaks into the profession on a newspaper in Puerto Rico and through his eyes are portrayed colorful characters in the days when newspapers flourished.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2009
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC THOSummary: An off-the-wall comedy about America's leading "Gonzo" journalist, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, the legendary underground reporter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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Summary: Few American lives are stranger, more action-packed, or wilder than that of Hunter S. Thompson. Born a rebel in Louisville, Kentucky, Thompson spent a lifetime channeling his energy and insight into such landmark works as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas--and his singular and provocative style challenged and revolutionized writing. Now, two of his colleagues have interviewed the Good Doctor's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.92 THOMPSON, HUNTER S SEYSummary: "Experience fifteen years in the life of seminal British artist Ralph Steadman, whose surreal, often confrontational artwork is frequently associated with Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Tired of the noise and madness of New York, journalist Paul Kemp moves to Puerto Rico to write for a local newspaper. Adopting the rum-soaked life of the island, Kemp becomes obsessed with the fiancee of Sanderson, a businessman involved in shady property development deals. When he is recruited by Sanderson to write favorably about his latest unsavory scheme, Kemp is presented with the choice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RUMFrisell, Bill.
Contents: Overture (My old Kentucky home) -- I got off the plane around midnight-- -- At the airport newstand -- The next day was heavy-- -- The governor, a swinish neo-Nazi hack-- -- Entr'acte -- On our way back to the motel -- It was Saturday morning, the day ofthe big race-- -- In a box not far from ours-- -- Sometime around 10:30 Monday morning--.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 429 Records 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN FRIMcKeen, William
Summary: McKeen chronicles the mesmerizing life of legendary Gonzo journalist and Fear and loathing in Las Vegas author Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson's childhood is detailed, along with his explosive relationship with his editors at Playboy and Rolling Stone, his drug use, his controversial persona, and life at his secluded Colorado home.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 070.92 THOMPSON, HUNTER S. McKOakenfold, Paul.
Contents: Ready steady go / Asher D -- Southern sun / Carla Werner -- Time of your life / Perry Farrell -- Hypnotised / Tiff Lacey -- Zoo York -- Nixon's spirit / Hunter S. Thompson -- Hold your hand / Emiliana Torrini -- Starry eyed surprise / Shifty Shellshock -- Get em up / Ice Cube -- Motion / Grant Lee Phillips -- The harder they come / Nelly Furtado & Tricky.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Maverick 2002